Power station 38 tonners
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TRANSL1FT Freight of Knottingley, has added two 6 x 4 Foden S106T, Rolls-Royce (Perkins Shrewsbury) 2 9 0 L Eagle powered, tractive units to its existing fleet of 30 Foden vehicles.
The new units are matched to specially designed Crane Fruehauf tipper semi-trailers to transport ash from power stations around the country to processing plants at Knottingley and Heck in West Yorkshire where it is reconstituted into Plasnor building blocks.
George Neville Easy Sheet equipment allows one-man sheeting of the 25 tonne payload, an otherwise impossible task for the driver alone. Used as per instructions, the equipment is said to work well, but if the empty body is left uncovered distortion of the main support beam may occur.
Other equipment specified for evaluation includes a plastic lube liner sheet fitted to the fifth wheel coupling as an alternative to grease lubrication, intended to minimise wear of the friction plate.